Claudio Monteverdi And Classical Music

During the Baroque Ages a man by the name of Caravaggio was a very prominante artist,

The difficulty of his breathing increased, less air came in with every breath, tightness filled his chest and lungs - this had to end. Antonio Vivaldi, known as “The Red Priest,” due to his hair color, attempted to give mass, but his bronchial asthma restricted him from doing his job well (Heller). He lost his ability to preach when the pain proved too much. So he returned to his first love: music. Antonio Vivaldi’s father, a barber-turned-professional-violinist in Venice, taught him to play the violin at a very young age. At ten years old, Vivaldi became his father’s substitute at St. Mark’s Orchestra (Getzinger). Thus, at an early age, he showed extraordinary promise. Years later, that promise came to fruition as he revolutionized Baroque music. Because Antonio Vivaldi’s compositions added warmth and a rhythmically textured sound to a rather ornamental Baroque style, his musical approach appealed to listeners and changed how everyone viewed concertos. His revolutionary style influenced other musicians and European society from his first composition in 1690 to his death in 1741. More than two centuries later, his music, best represented by The Four Seasons, continues to have an impact. When Vivaldi lost his ability to preach, he found a new but familiar voice through the violin and became the Baroque period’s most influential composer, changing the way Europeans, and even other composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, approached music.

Reality comes from creating an imagined thought - whether that thought stemmed from something that someone has seen to what someone has heard, or even felt. The composer that will be discussed throughout this essay composed Morir non può il mio cuore in 1566, this composer is none other but Maddalena Casulana. During the years in which Casulana composed music, she was always looking to present her dedications of her madrigal volumes in a way to provide a little more biographical information than most would at the time. Throughout 1560-1569, she began to publish what would ultimately become her three-volume collection of madrigals (1568; 1570; 1583) that were published the year of her death and which were the first three books of madrigals by a women composer to ever be printed (Franck, Brownstone, 1995. Page 46, 48). Casulana presented her music in a very dramatic way, she was different and unique, focusing and attracted to the topics of ones passing and perpetual dying (Sadie, 1980. Page 2). She was an Italian composer and singer who told a story through the pieces she had composed; expressing each piece in a distinct and narrative way. Maddalena Casulana contributed a great deal of music that till this day will be remembered and cherished.

In the book, Culture War by Morris Fiorina, his political stance on Americans not being polarized has not been caused by a growing significance of the political parties today, rather a change in the government over the years. He believes that the two parties, Democrat, and Republican are the most polarized while the public is not. Abramowitz argues that there is no polarized relationship between the American people and the political parties. He believes the polarization is reflected through those who are politically informed and those who are not. While recognizing both of these views, Fiorina and Abramowitz will give us background knowledge on why America is or not polarized and what are the misconceptions that shape that further

Monteverdi was known to have distinguished the ‘Seconda Prattica’ from the ‘Prima Prattica’ or the first and second practices. He did this by saying that the ‘Prima Prattica’ music dominated the text (the text was based around the music), but the ‘Seconda Prattica’ music was dominated by the text (the music was based around the text). In ‘Ohimé’, Monteverdi used a poem written by another person and created a song with it, which showed that the music can be composed around the text, which is one of the reasons that the ‘Seconda Prattica’ is different to the ‘Prima Prattica’.

     This madrigal is an excellent example of Monteverdi’s late Renaissance vocal style, with its elaborate

It is apparent that musicians have been selected to maestro di cappella positions shown from the evidence of Monteverdi's experiences at Mantua. Monteverdi in 1609, was asked to request the availability of a certain Galeazzo Sirena for him to serve as maestro di cappella for Prince Francesco Gonzaga. Although he was worried shown in a letter, he wrote later questioning what would happen after the death of the Duke of Mantua, since the prince would have the power to appoint whoever he chose as his director of music.

In 1725, Vivaldi created a new, advanced take at the doctrine of affections, where the music is aimed to directly affect the listener’s emotions. He wanted to express feeling through his music. Being the most influential artist in the late Baroque era, Antonio Vivaldi focused on idiomatic writing where the music is designed to highlight the strengths of the instrument being used.

Palestrina is recognized today as one of the fathers who revolutionized church music. His most famous piece is Missa Papae Marcelli which recognized Pope Marcellus II. And it is played at masses around the

The play Prince of Egypt directed by Scott Schwartz an American child actor who participated in Toy Story and now a director has shown his vision of the marvelous play in the Silicon Valley TheatreWorks. Additionally, the play itself is dramatic and musical. To sum the play, an orphan Hebrew was found near the river and was brought into one of the most prestigious family in Egypt. A huge amount of time has passed seeing Moses (Hebrew child) and Ramses (Son of the Pharaoh) growing up together into adults. However, a war caused the sickness or death of the Pharaoh, which leads Ramses to be the new leader. Moses and Ramses has a strong bond between each other, until Moses finds out his true identity; which is being born as a Hebrew. Eventually finding out his true self, his goals were to free the Hebrews being captive by the Pharaoh, which in this case it is now Ramses. With hard work and determination, Moses has fulfilled his duty to free his people. In the ending of the play, I was amazed and enjoyed the play. Therefore, I wished for another seeing of this beautiful work just by how the themes, plot, creative staging, and the passion of the director is put out there to everyone else.

The classical music period extends from 1740 to 1810, which includes the music of Haydn, Mozart, and the first period of Beethoven. The classical period of music combined harmony, melody, rhythm, and orchestration more effectively than earlier periods of music. With the natural evolution of music slowly changing with the culture, the baroque era had ended. That era had left a structure, articulation and periodic phrasing of music which would shape classical music.

Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 - July 1741) was a Italian Baroque era composer that wrote many concertos, well over 40 operas, and multiple sacred choral works. Many of his concertos was for a Venice orphanage called “Ospedale della Pietà (Hospital of Mercy)”, where he was a violin master and he taught the young girls music education. (Talbot) (Landon, pg. 49). To this day he reaims of of the most influential composers of the Baroque era and of all time

Legalizing marijuana, or known as weed, can produce an abundant number of pros and cons. Associating the legalization of marijuana to tobacco may generate verbal and physical arguments between many individuals. Observations from a source the NYLN Youth Leader Blog reports, “the legalization of marijuana can regulate crimes, protect law enforcement, provide medical benefits, and boost income” (“19 Primary Pros and Cons of Legalizing Weed” n.p.). Although weed may benefit its seller, it can cause treacherous dangers for handlers and non-users. According to the NYLN Youth Leader Blog, “even though marijuana has its pros, it contains risks such as,

Giovanni Gabrieli was an Italian composer born in 1554 and wrote many works in the ‘in between’ stage of Renaissance and Baroque. He was a composer and

Composer of Per La Gloria D’Adorarvi, Giovanni Battista Bononcini(1672-1748) was born into a family of composers. Both his father and brother were composers. Although he was orphaned at age 8, he still followed in his fathers footsteps, releasing instrumental music by age 15. Throughout his life, he moved around to many different European countries, but he was born and died in Italy. This shows through in his Italian baroque style, which he helped spread around Europe in his travels.